Human rights conditions and asylum-relevant developments in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda.
The gender-based targeting of women in Sudan's civil war follows documented patterns. First, sexual violence during ground assaults:...
May 9, 2026
In 2024, the RSF consolidated its hold over Khartoum, North Khartoum, and Omdurman while pushing into Central Sudan....
May 9, 2026
Sudan is not a party to the Rome Statute. Therefore, the ICC's jurisdiction over Sudan flows entirely from...
May 9, 2026
As of early 2026, UNHCR and OCHA track over 9 million internally displaced people within Sudan — a...
WHO's Surveillance System for Attacks on Health Care (SSA) has recorded over 100 attacks on healthcare in Sudan...
The Masalit are a non-Arab agricultural people of West Darfur, traditionally concentrated in and around El Geneina (the...
UN documentation reveals consistent patterns of sexual violence across Sudan. First, RSF fighters target women and girls during...
Sudan's 2023 war emerged from the collapse of the post-Bashir transition. The 2019 revolution overthrew Omar al-Bashir's 30-year...
RSF-controlled zones include most of Darfur (excluding parts of North Darfur), parts of Kordofan, and parts of central...
The Sudan displacement crisis exceeds the Ukrainian crisis and approaches the cumulative Syrian displacement totals. IOM Sudan's Displacement...
The RSF emerged from the Janjaweed militias mobilised by the Bashir government during the 2003-2008 Darfur conflict. Furthermore,...
The current Sudanese conflict began on 15 April 2023 between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) led by General...